A Pound of Cure: A Story of Monte Carlo

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1894. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine toned, boards lightly toned, some pages lightly soiled. 1894 Hard Cover. viii, 200 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Henry Bishop (1847-1928) was a United States novelist. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1867. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature in 1918. The best-known of his novels and sketches are: Detmold (1879); The House of a Merchant Prince (1882); Choy Susan and Other Stories (1884); Fish and Men in the Maine Islands (1885); The Golden Justice (1887); The Brownstone Boy and Other Queer People (1888); A House Hunter in Europe (1893); Writing to Rosina (1894). Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces (1883) is a book of travel.